Poll: Reliability of Various Storage Drives

I have had a hard drive fail on me

  • Yes

    Votes: 976 85.1%

  • No

    Votes: 171 14.9%
  • Total voters
    1,147
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

- Yes, unfortunately more than I wish they did.

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)

-Not applicable

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)

-No, although only ever used one and not for all that long.

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

Drives? Hell yes, as much if not more than hard drives.. the actual disk itself, not unless someone beat the crap out of it with a metal brush or brillo pad.

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?

Yes, sadly.

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?

Regimen? No, just whenever I think about it and have the time (not all that often).
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

I have had 4 fail on me, all Western Digital.

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
Yes, 1, a Creative unit

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
I weekly image/update my drives.
 
1. No, never had a HD fail on me. Well not mechanically. Only things like bad sectors and viruses, things that can be fixed using low level formattting.

2. Yes. Lexar jumpdrive 256mb, capacitor inside was loose.

3. Yes, my current one works via USB, but fails when using Firewire. It's a known problem with the chipset and not the harddrive itself.

4. Yes, DVD-r and CD-R, I've had a few discs that stopped working after only a year. Some non label brands. The CD-Rs i had that were silver started turning yellow.

5. Yes, I have had some, but was able to recover 99% of my files.

6. Yes, sometimes i will save an image of my HD after a fresh winxp install and some tweaks via Norton Ghost. But only about once a year. I also back up my 40 gb of precious Alizee videos on my external 80gb hard drive.
 
2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
MiniSD card used as pen drive failed.

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Backup every month although I've never had an HDD crash on me.
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes ...lost 200+ gigs of data (was a 250GB WD SATA drive)

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
Had a Thumb drive fail on me at work ..could no longer access the drive

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
No

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes ..some coaster burns , some just from getting to scratched up (if those count)

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes ..deleted folder with stuff I actually wanted to keep inside , but had already added more data to drive and ran defrag before attempting to recover ..although I could see the file by name , it wasnt all there anymore

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Yes (kinda) ...spare hard drive with my "essentials" on and I also back-up stuff to CD's/DVD's from time to time


 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

Yes - Laptop HDD

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)

No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)

No

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

Yes - CD-R,CD-RW & DVD-RW

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?

No

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?

Yes - push to other HDDs & DVD-R
 
1. Yes, many brands
2. No, but I've had 'em stolen
4. Yes, even very well cared for CD-Rs
5. No
6. No, I do it manually with no schedule - no "regimen" to it.
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

Yes. Back when I was a starving college student I bought a brand new top of the line 40 gig 7200 rpm Western Digital WD400. Two weeks later windows froze while I typing something. I rebooted and it did it again. When I rebooted a 3rd time I just heard "click click click click click".

The store wouldn't take it back so I was HDless for the entire RMA process :(

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?

When I got my first CD burner I spent ~5 hours backing up stuff, I have never had to use any of those disks. I also did something similar when I got my first DVD writer.
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

Yes

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)

No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)

Knock on wood no

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

Yes

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?

No

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen

Not really
 
1. Yes: 2x3.5" hdd, 2x2.5" hdd
2. Yes: Sandisk 256MB (early model)
3. Yes: enclosure went bad...hdd still good
4. 1xDVD burner, 1xCD-burner
5. Deleted half of "Band of Brothers" through Nero (could not recover)
6. DVD burner for non replaceable data (personal photos, pr0n)
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? YES

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) YES

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) NO

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? YES

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? YES

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? YES
 
Asgorath said:
I am conducting a poll to use as data in a speech I am giving. Please answer the following questions. Only answer a question if it applies to you.

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
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1. yes
2. no
3. yes
4. yes
5. yes
6. yes
 
Asgorath said:
I am conducting a poll to use as data in a speech I am giving. Please answer the following questions. Only answer a question if it applies to you.

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
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yes

Asgorath said:
2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
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no

Asgorath said:
3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
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yes

Asgorath said:
4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
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yes

Asgorath said:
5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
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no

Asgorath said:
6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
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yes
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? Yes Three or four times but i must say i do kick the the cr@p out of my pc when it doesnt do what i tell it to do.

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) never owned one

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) No

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? Yes two of them.

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? I dont delete things i still need.

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? No
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
Not used

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
No
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? YES

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? YES

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? NO

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? NO
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
No.
2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
No
3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
No
4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes, but then it was my fault. Overburning with High Speeds.
5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes
6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
I Backup My Stuff on an external HDD, and the most important things also get burned to DVD, every 4 or so months.
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes, 3 of my own but countless of other peoples
2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
Yes, 2
3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
Yes, if you count external RAID arrays, and it was RAID 5 too.. =D
4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes, too many to count
5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes, too many to count
6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Tape drive, (which occasionally chews tapes) and an external H.D.
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
YES

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
NO, don't own

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
NO, don't own

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
NO

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
NO

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
YES
 
hi,

as im a storage engineer i have some stories about failing harddrives...but its high end stuff, scsi and fc interface....but manufacturers are the same: mainly hitachi (ibm) and seagate
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? yes

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) no

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) no

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? yes

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? no

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? no
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes a Maxtor DiamondMax 200GB 8mb cache IDE

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
Nope

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
N/A

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
No

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Only for specific files not whole partitions. Documents, email and photos of my son are all backed up to my server which is about have a 250GB RAID1 array added since the aforementioned failure.
 
Asgorath said:
I am conducting a poll to use as data in a speech I am giving. Please answer the following questions. Only answer a question if it applies to you.

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
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please bear in mind this is based per year for 150+ users over about 4 years
1.Yes about 5/100
2.Yes about 1/50
3.Yes about 1/30
4.Yes about 1/40 increasing to 1/10 at the 4 year mark
5. Yes
6. Yes - secondary RAIDs + tape
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you? Yes ... quite a few, actually. It's mostly been IBM and Maxtor, but I've seen all (current) manufacturers' hard drives fail.
2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these) Yes, computers just stopped recognizing the drive.
3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these) Yes, of course.
4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you? Yes ... especially OptoRite drives. I hope I never have to go near one of those again :D
5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable? No ... if I delete a file, then I don't want it.
6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen? Most of the data I have on my hard drives can easily be replaced (i.e. re-rip CDs, reinstall applications), but I burn the data that can't to a DVD-R once a week.
 
Asgorath said:
I am conducting a poll to use as data in a speech I am giving. Please answer the following questions. Only answer a question if it applies to you.

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
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1. Yes had 2 Maxtors and 1 Western Digital fail on me.

2. Had a Samsung CD writer/ DVD reader make some corrupted cds a few times.

6. I now am using RAID5 on my main OS installation, and burn many dvds when my storage drive becomes too full
 
1 Yes
2 not used
3 not used
4 yes 3 times all dvd drives
5 yes
6 yes only important files and Quicken
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes, many
2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
Yes
3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
Yes
4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
No
5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
No
6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Yes, external harddrive / DVD-RW
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
Yes

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
No
 
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
No

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
No

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
Yes

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
Yes

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
yes, cd-r and dvd-s, see 4.
 
Asgorath said:
I am conducting a poll to use as data in a speech I am giving. Please answer the following questions. Only answer a question if it applies to you.

1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?

2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)

3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)

4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?

5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?

6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
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1: Yes, 4 in total
2: No
3: NA
4: No
5: Yes
6: Yes
 
1. Yes, about 20 times.
2. Yes, once.
3. Not yet.
4. Not yet.
5. Not yet.
6. Occasional manual backups, e.g. once every few months.

Funny: I'm making a wind chime out of about 500gb of HD platters which have failed on me. 4 of 5 of those drives were Western Digital!
 
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